Mark D. White

Writer, editor, teacher

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I’m a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, where I teach courses in philosophy, economics, and law, and the author/editor/co-editor of several books.

Category: Psychology

  • Inequality: Confusing the Issue

    Mark D. White The topic of today's "Room for Debate" feature at The New York Times is inequality, prompted by a recent paper by Mike I. Norton and Dan Ariely that shows a large number of Americans would prefer to live in a society with a more equitable distribution of wealth (like Sweden). Norton himself…

  • Superhuman Ethics Class is in session in Avengers Academy #10!

    Wow, I thought Christos Gage was just kidding when he had Hank Pym mention Superhuman Ethics Class in Avengers Academy #8 (noted here), but he was serious: in this week's Avengers Academy #10–pencilled by the incomprable Sean Chen, by the way–class is in session! And how do our students (and teachers) do? Let's see… — SPOILERS…

  • Reaffirming willpower in Detective Comics #874

    Scott Snyder and Francesco Francavilla offer up another fantastic issue of Detective Comics with today's issue 874, continuing the re-introduction of James Gordon Jr. in a tantalizing discussion with his father, while also exploring the aftermath of Dick's exposure to the Dealer's hallucinogenic gas in the previous story arc. There are many intriguing elements to…

  • Debating the Insanity Defense

    Mark D. White In the most recent "Room for Debate" feature in The New York Times, five scholars involved in law, psychiatry, and criminal justice discuss the current state of the insanity defense in light of the Tucson shootings. A nice range of viewpoints is presented, from Alan Dershowitz's argument that the insanity defense has…

  • Oliver Queen’s Self-Loathing in Green Arrow #7

    That was strange–I just read Green Arrow #7 last night, one day after I wrote this Psychology Today blog post on self-loathing, and what do I find Ollie and the mysterious Lady of the Forest discussing? No big spoilers here, particularly concering the Lady's identity, which is tangentially relevant but not essential to exploring Ollie's attitude…

  • A psychologist reviews Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

    My friend Robin Rosenberg, editor of The Psychology of Superheroes, wrote about her impressions of the controversial Spider-Man musical at her Psychology Today blog – worth a read!

  • Telling It Like It Isn’t: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Confabulation

    Mark D. White Bear with me, this is very relevant, especially to the previous post on behavioral law and economics. Even if it's not, it's very interesting. The new issue of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society (16/6, 2010) (open access until February 28, 2011) features a symposium on the cognitive neurosceicne of confabulation.…

  • “Free to Choose” symposium on behavioral law and economics

    Mark D. White As I noted earlier, on December 6 and 7 the blog Truth on the Market hosted "Free to Choose?", an online symposium on behavioral law and economics, the contents of which appear below the fold, followed by an excerpt from Josh Wright's introductory comment.

  • Tunnel vision and wrongful convictions

    Mark D. White I haev a new post at Psychology Today reviewing a fantastic new book chapter titled "Tunnel Vision" by University of Wisconsin Law School professor Keith A. Findley, also the co-director of the Wisconsin innocence Project and president of the Innocence Network. The chapter is forthcoming in the book, Conviction of the Innocent:…